Jamee Decio

Jamee Decio is a mother and grandmother who grew up in Elkhart.¹ The daughter of local businessman and philanthropist Art Decio, she has publicly described an eight year court struggle to adopt her son.² She now lives in South Bend.³

Decio graduated from Notre Dame in 1975 and its law school in 1980.⁴ She practiced law in Elkhart, including work as a deputy prosecutor, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting.⁵ Her campaign describes her later writing career as union work.¹ She returned to northern Indiana in 2025.⁵

She is the Democratic nominee challenging Republican incumbent Rudy Yakym in Indiana's 2nd Congressional District.⁶ Her campaign emphasizes everyday household costs, stable economic policies for local businesses and farms, and protection against rising utility bills tied to data center expansion.² She supports term limits for members of Congress and Supreme Court justices.¹

On healthcare, she favors preserving a private insurance option while guaranteeing affordable care, and she supports protecting Medicaid and Social Security.¹ She calls for developers of large data centers to pay their own infrastructure costs, with local control over zoning decisions.¹ She also proposes banning congressional stock trading, requiring blind trusts and establishing an independent ethics commission.¹ On affordability, she supports a higher minimum wage, ending tariffs and shifting more of the tax burden toward billionaires.⁶